Joseph W. Westphal

Joseph Westphal


United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Incumbent
Assumed office March 28, 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	James Smith
United States Undersecretary of the Army
In office September 21, 2009 – March 28, 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Nelson Ford
Succeeded by	Brad Carson
United States Secretary of the Army Acting
In office March 5, 2001 – May 31, 2001
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Gregory Dahlberg (Acting)
Succeeded by	Thomas White
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works
In office June 1998 – March 5, 2001
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Martin Lancaster
Succeeded by	Michael Parker
Personal details
Born	(1948-01-26) January 26, 1948 Santiago, Chile
Alma mater	Adelphi University University of Missouri, Columbia

Joseph W. Westphal (born January 26, 1948) is the current United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He served as the 30th United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2009-2014.

Early life and education

Westphal was born in Santiago, Chile.^[1] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Adelphi University in New York^[2] and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Missouri.^[3]

Career

Westphal served as the head of the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University between 1975 and 1987 and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University while working at the law firm of Patton Boggs.^[4] He served as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works from 1998 to 2001 and the Acting Secretary of the Army in 2001.^[5] He also served as Chancellor of the University of Maine System^[1] from 2002 - 2006 and was a professor of Political Science at the University of Maine from 2002 - 2009.^[6] He later served as the Provost, at The New School in New York City.^[7]

Westphal was a member of President Obama’s Transition Team for Defense^[8] and was appointed as the United States Under Secretary of the Army in September, 2009. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia on March 26, 2014 and sworn in the same day.^[9]^[10]

References

1 2 Heil, Emily (21 October 2013). "Senior Army official said to be in line for Saudi ambassadorship". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Cohen, Ruth-Ellen (19 October 2002). "An Army of One; New UMS chancellor already making mark on state education scene". The Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ "U.S. army undersecretary picked to be next Saudi envoy". The Peninsula Times. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Cohen, Ruth-Ellen (7 February 2002). "Westphal selected for UMS top post; Ex-Army official unanimous choice". The Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ William Gardner Bell. Secretaries of war and secretaries of the army: portr. & biograph. sketches. Government Printing Office. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-16-087635-6.
↑ "Looking for needles in a federal haystack". Washington Post. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Santora, Marc; Foderaro, Lisa W. (11 December 2008). "New School Faculty Votes No Confidence in Kerrey". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Knickmeyer, Ellen (8 November 2013). "U.S. Army undersecretary picked to be Saudi envoy.". WSJ. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ "Obama and Biden have managed to get a few ambassador confirmations while on the road". Washington Post. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ "Joseph W. Westphal". Embassy of the United States, Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Retrieved 25 November 2014.

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Political offices
Preceded by Martin Lancaster	Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works 1998–2001	Succeeded by Michael Parker
Preceded by Gregory Dahlberg Acting	United States Secretary of the Army Acting 2001	Succeeded by Thomas White
Preceded by Nelson Ford	United States Undersecretary of the Army 2009–2014	Succeeded by Brad Carson
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by James Smith	United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia 2014–present	Incumbent

U.S. Secretaries of War and the Army

U.S. Department
of War
(1789–1949)

Secretaries of War	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall

Assistant Secretaries of War	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen

U.S. Department
of the Army
(1949–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh

Under Secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson

United States Ambassadors to Saudi Arabia

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Smith (2009–13)
Westphal (2014–)

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